SOLAS update

7th International SOLAS Summer School

The network funding for the SOLAS Summer School 2018 is still open! Help SOLAS students to learn about interdisciplinary science and develop a professional community that will support them in their research careershere.

Visit the SOLAS Summer School webpage here. Registration will be open soon!

Download and read issues 5 and 6 of our SOLAS event report.

Issue 5 reports on the 'Frontiers in ocean-atmosphere exchange: Air-sea interface and fluxes of mass and energy' workshop that took place in Cargèse, Corsica, France in May 2017.

Issue 6 reports on a workshop series on SOLAS Science and Society, that took place in Brussels, Belgium in October 2016, in Monaco in March 2017 and recently in Rome, Italy in June 2017.

SOLAS is pleased to inform you that Li Li, the new project officer based in Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, joined the International Project Office (IPO) on 1 September. Welcome Li Li! Li Li is a marine ecologist and biologist, who obtained her Master of Philosophy degree from Xiamen University on global distribution of virioplankton. She received her doctoral degree from the City University of Hong Kong on drug screening with transgenic fish. Li Li is a scuba diver with diving experience in many countries and voluntary working experiences in non-governmental organisation.

From 14 - 18 August the SOLAS IPO welcomed Alina Correll, a school intern who learned all about SOLAS and the life as a marine researcher. Read the report on her experiences in the IPO and at the research institute here.

After 12 years of work for SOLAS in UK and Germany, Emilie Breviere, will leave SOLAS by end of September. She received many farewell messages and she would like to say a big thank you to everyone!

Announce your SOLAS relevant session for the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, US, 11-16 February in the next e-news! If you would like to have your sessions announced, please send an email to us.

SOLAS will have an exhibit booth, so please plan to come and visit us!

The international conference on 'Shipping and the Environment - From Regional to Global Perspective' 24-25 October 2017, Gothenburg, Sweden, will be followed by a SOLAS shipping workshop, 26 October. The aim of this workshop is to develop plans for SOLAS research focusing on shipping, and to bring together groups of researchers keen to contribute to this research. Register now here.

SOLAS was hosting a session during the IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA conference, A tribute to Roland von Glasow, 27 August-1 September 2017, Cape Town, South Africa. A SOLAS event report will follow on that.

European Research Council Starting Grants - any nationality with 2 to 7 yrs after completion of PhD for 5 years. Submit an application by 17 October.

International Congress on Climate Change and its Impacts – ICCCI, Huaraz, Peru, 29 November - 1 December 2017. Register for the student registration by 10 October and regular registration by 25 October.

Varia

The ArcticNet Network of Centres of Excellence and its national and international partners invite to the International Arctic Change 2017 Conference, 11-15 December 2017, Québec, Canada. More details are availble here.

For the ASLO Summer Meeting, Victoria, Canada, 10-15 June 2018, the abstract submission will be open January-9 February 2018. More information are available here.

Launch of the latest phase in the evolution of Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System (AIMES), which will draw on research from the social sciences to explore how humans influence the planet's dynamics. More information are available here.

The International Group for Marine Ecological Time Series (IGMETS) has released its report entitled “What are Marine Ecological Time Series telling us about the ocean? A status report.” Download the report here.

The latest issue of the Past Global Changes Magazine (vol. 25, no 2, August 2017), titled "Sustaining Earth’s Biodiversity", is now available here.

Funding opportunities

Future Earth’s travel grants provide early career professionals with the opportunity to participate in events all around the world and contribute actively to the Future Earth initiative. More details see here.

European Research Council Starting Grants for researchers of any nationality with two to seven years experience since the completion of their PhD may be awarded up to € 1.5 million for a period of 5 years. Apply by 17 October 2017 here.

Miscellaneous

Nominations for the Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) Scientific Steering Group is now open. The deadline for nominations is 30 September 2017. More information available here.

The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) is seeking input from the global ocean science community about the effectiveness of SCOR communications. Complete the surveyhere.